Reply #278: Deep down, we know what the problem is and how to solve it.

[Brother_1969]

The problem's sources are racism, poverty, easy availability of guns, and governmental policies designed to perpetuate chaos in the black community (because some financially benefit from it). These are not all independent but the steps to solution are not complicated:

First, we must guarantee (and deliver) an acceptable and dignified level of housing, food, transportation, and medical care for all people in this country (including those who lack "documentation").

Second, we must address the problems of easy gun availability and loopholes that allow it. The DC City Council had it right in banning gun ownership -- this ban should obviously be extended nationwide. If the present, hard-right Supreme Court overturns it, then the next (presumably Democrat) administration must make repealing of the Second Amendment a top priority.

Third, we must investigate and terminate those government programs, overt and covert, that are designed to interfere with the lives and families of minorities. Any inner city black family can testify to the government's involvement in stimulating drug use by the black population there. These claims must be verified.

Finally, this country must get serious about paying the reparations that it rightfully owes to the black population for the centuries of slavery, oppression, and racism.

If we take these simple and obvious steps then many of the social pathologies of the inner cities will evaporate. It is not a conceptually difficult problem.